I like to laugh to the point where I can't breathe.
I like to write letters and postcards and send them out to people
or companies that I don't know.
Other delights - small, but noteworthy surprises, story telling,
light hearted moments, improv, movies

Love watching movies- I want to watch everything- from your more
serious Days of Heaven or Knife in the Water to junkier movies like
Deuce Biggalo. In fact, this weekend I just hosted a Nicholas Cage
marathon- The Rock and Snake Eyes. Pretty quality Nicholas Cage
freakouts. Just needed a little John Cusack - Con Air action to
even it out.

Attended University of Pennsylvania for a psych degree, but have a
career in education

"Working a lot, but hardly working"
I work for a startup international education company in Midtown
during the week and manage a small tutoring setup in my free
time.
I love helping students- meeting them, creating that personal
relationship, seeing them discover, watching them grow.

I think kids are so cool, and I love the unique and creative
perspectives that they share. I especially love it when the teens
teach me about Bioshock III and Minecraft, while I regale them with
the times of Final Fantasy III or Chrono Tirgger. Or when the
little girls teach me all sorts of Hello Kitty or Princess dances.

City of God, La Dulce Vita, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Wild
Bunch, Ghost in the Shell II, Kill Bill, There Will be Blood,
Sansho the Bailiff, Amores Perros, Me, You, and Everyone we Know,
Days of Heaven, Metropolis, Suspiria, High and Low, Vanilla Sky,
Say Anything, Royal Tenenbaums, Jules and Jim, Rear Window, Tree of
Life, Drive, The Artist, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Greenberg, Toy
Story 3, Bringing out the Dead, Zero Dark Thirty, Looper, Beasts of
The Southern Wild...
Fav Directors. Terrence Malick, P.T. Anderson, Kurosawa, Scorcese,
Fellini, Argento.

Books: East of Eden, Sometimes a Great Notion, Into the Wild,
Dorian Gray, David Copperfield, The Ground Beneath her Feet, The
Windup Bird Chronicle, Rabbit Run, The Sun Also Rises, Great
Expectations, Better than Running at Night, Sister Carrie, The
Beach, Norwegian Wood, The Hunger Games Trilogy, etc.
Authors: Dickens, Hemmingway, Murakami, Rushdie

Show: Carnivale, Breaking Bad, House of Cards, Oz, Louie, The IT
Crowd, Little Britain Lost, Deadwood (well the first season
anyway), Mr. Show, The Office, Superjail

How to gamify the learning systems I put into place for my
students.
I want them not only to learn, but to have fun while doing so. And
I want to make my programming more accessible- to reach beyond the
student with high level of self-motivation. Education can work for
everyone if applied properly.

I would love to be watching a really good movie at the theatre.
While I am satisfied watching movies on the small screen, there is
nothing like being able to shuffle about, choose your seat, and
settle in for a full screen viewing.

If it's warm enough, I want to be walking all over the city- up and
down to the West Village. Across the Williamsburg or Brooklyn
Bridge. Into some show, with a pitstop for takoyaki or
fro-yo.

Or I'm seeing Employee of the month or some other show at UCB. Any
night is a good night to be rolling, laughing for an hour.

When I was 16 I loved driving around my suburban town- making trips
to the nearby Tastykake factory late at night- getting hoisted into
the air by my friends and over the edge of the 10-foot tall
dumpsters that held all the expired tastykake packages from the day
before.

I'd fall into that sweet batch, swimming in Butterscotch Krimpets
or peanut butter chocolate cakes. The best packages I'd toss out
for my friends to gather into my car trunk for kaking our friends'
cars or throwing like darts at street signs.

What is private.. is that while my friends just saw these as ammo.
the icing filled my eyes like dollar signs in a Looney Tune. After
I had dropped my last friend off, I would take a box of Krimpets
into my house and cake by cake, lick all of the icing off.